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Australian Community Children Services says a higher level of care for children outweighs the cost.

Australian Community Children Services says a higher level of care for children outweighs the cost.

Pay childcare workers more: union Photo

Posted July 5, 2009 00:17:00
Updated July 5, 2009 04:54:00

The union representing childcare workers says improving skill levels would encourage more people to take up the profession, but they also need to be paid more.

Tags: family-and-children, child-care, government-and-politics, federal-government, unions, children, australia

'Australia' tourism bid a failure: Tollner

The Northern Territory Opposition tourism spokesman says the latest tourism figures show the Government has failed in its bid to attract national and international tourists.

Tags: industry, tourism, states-and-territories, nt, darwin-0800

Green shoots wither in job drought Audio Photo

In recent weeks, any piece of economic data that could loosely be desribed as "less worse than expected" has been portrayed as a good result - to use, or overuse, the jargon - a green shoot.

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, finance-markets, stockmarket, currency-markets, international-financial-crisis, australia, united-states

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